Blessings to all ♥️

Good morning, Community 🙏🏽❤️ I am pleased to be here to participate and answer the questions of the initiative proposed by @mllg. The questions are as follows: Do you remember a narrow stretch or a fall on your journey through life? Was it easy to regain the motivation to keep going? Do you remember what strategies you used to get ahead?

Like any human being, throughout our lives we go through spurts of high and low turning points, what we colloquially know as the "ups and downs of life". These build us up or destroy us, depending on the angle of vision we want to give it according to our personality and level of perception as individuals.

Although it is not at all pleasant to go through situations that distress and demotivate us, they are necessary for our personal growth. In each one of us there is a force of motivation that emerges from deep within us to channel the learning after each setback.

In 2016, with sacrifice and a lot of effort, I graduated as a Chemical Process Engineer. A person very close to my family offered me and my boyfriend to do an internship in PDVSA Gas Anaco. My boyfriend at the time did not accept because his family had other plans for him, but I was thrilled and excited to develop my knowledge and skills in the workplace.

When I moved to the town of Anaco, in the state of Anzoátegui 🇻🇪 I was super excited to develop myself in the PDVSA GAS spaces. I was aware of what the company was at that time, but my focus was to learn and do my internship as well as possible.

In the beginning, you could say the first week, everything was 100 percent perfect. This person close to my family was my mentor for this internship so he was introducing me to several engineers who would help me with my work, outlining their knowledge to achieve the goals I set for myself. I went to all the meetings scheduled with these people, they taught me how to use two very important simulators for the focus of my work and in the first few weeks I felt like a fish in water.

This feeling of success did not last for long. My internship mentor was very strict, to the extent that he would not half scold me or say hurtful things to me in front of anyone. At first, I didn't take it so personally until I didn't even want to see this person on the company premises anymore. Everything I was doing was wrong, I couldn't even translate my approach and perspectives into my work, which was my responsibility because absolutely everything had to be done the way this person wanted it done.

From a simple typeface, font size and color of a slide to the wording of my content; nothing I did seemed right to him and everything bothered him. My lowest turning point was when I went to his office with one of the geological engineers who was helping me with my work and he yelled at me in front of her. The girl was overwhelmed and defended me but I just wanted to cry and be swallowed up by the earth.

I didn't realize at the time that I was suffering from depression. My friend and hiver @chelle0891 can confirm to you all the times I would cry in the evenings when she would come home from work and I would tell her about how my day went. Not to mention all the times I would cry about waking up super sad because I didn't want to continue with internships anymore.

I told my mom about what was going on with me and she ignored the situation because she was close friends with this person. She just assumed that me always having a bad temper and being a perfectionist might have clashed with my tutor. Which was not true and it hurt me even more that my mom put her friendship with this person above my mental health.

I decided one day to stop crying and finish my work once and for all. I tried my best to make the best exhibition despite the great depression I was going through. Despite this, my internship exhibition was such a success that I was absorbed by a contractor the next day. I was grateful for this because I was no longer dependent on this person's opinion for my new job and I was happy to start a new direction.

I thanked this person for the opportunity but I decided not to talk to him anymore. He made a super negative impact on my life and I did not thank him for that at all, if it was a life lesson. Most human beings do not know how to channel their frustrations and take them out on others. Very few of us are empathetic. I took responsibility from day one, I cried a river because of what I was going through. Then I got up and went on.

I didn't leave where I didn't feel good because I was a professional. Regardless of how I felt, I decided to finish my goal and leave through the big door. No one is better than ANYONE but there are people who think they have God by the beard and are fascinated with ridiculing and minimizing others.

We must learn to be respectful and empathetic when we are not in the place of the afflicted and do not know how to measure the consequences of what we say. I believe that there is nothing more beautiful than a person who puts himself in the shoes of others and is kind to everyone around him, despite the problems he may have. A position does not make us indispensable or indispensable.

Thanks to those who spend a few minutes of their time to read me. See you in another initiative 🥳♥️